@misc{17354,
  author = {Noah Oldfield},
  title = {Quantum Computing - an army of Schr{\"o}dinger{\textquoteright}s cats is heading our way},
  abstract = {Quantum Computing (QC) is maturing to become a reality as a large amount of money worldwide is being poured into building quantum computers with varying technologies, such as superconducting, optics-based, and ion-trapping. Indeed, having functional, powerful, and error-free quantum computers together with relevant development platforms is essential. However, the breakthrough applications promised by QC, e.g., in medicine, healthcare, finance, and simulations discovery, finance, are empowered with quantum software. Therefore, there is a need for methods for efficient and intuitive development of quantum software for quantum computers to build QC applications. This lighting talk will start with a brief introduction to quantum computing, including the state of current quantum computers, QC platforms, programming languages, and development platforms. Next, the talk will dig deep into the current practice of programming quantum computers as low-level circuits. Subsequently, the talk will provide ideas on how the current practice can be improved to enable the masses to program quantum computers as opposed to the current practice where only specialists program quantum computers. In addition, the talk will present challenges in testing QC applications to ensure their correctness. Finally, the talk will provide a teaser of quantum software testing tools developed by our team. Such tools are the first in the world to automate the testing of quantum software.},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {Oslo Spektrum, Norway},
}